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Protest Plans Grow for Bush Visit
CRIME STOPPEBS A Thursday March to
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take off from North
Portland park
Clues Sought in Man’s Murder
Portland Police H om icide Investiga-
had several bullets holes.
ors, in cooperation w ith C rim e Stop-
Investigators have yet to establish s
jers, are asking for your help in solving
i murder.
On M onday, July 7, at about 3 :20 a.m.,
motive for the shooting.
23-yearold Andrew Ray M ikes, arrived
was reportedly the passenger in the cai
jy private vehicle at a local hospital
when someone opened fire on the vehicle
vith a fatal gunshot, injury. T he car, a
near the intersection o f Northeast 44"' Av
1999 maroon, 4-door Ford Escort, driven
(AP) — Both police and protest
ers are planning for a possible rau
cous day Thursday when Presi
dent Bush visits for a fund-raiser
on the University o f Portland cam
pus in north Portland.
Portland police are coordinating
security with the U.S. Secret Ser
vice and a White House advance
team, hoping to avoid some pitfalls
that led to major pol ice c lashes with
dem onstrators a year ago at a
money-raiser for Sen. Gordon Smith
in Portland.
Bush is expected to spend less
by a 24-year old male friend o f the victim
Mikes lived in southeast Portland anc
Andrew Ray Mikes
enue and Sandy Boulevard.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward o f up to $1,000fo r information, reported to Crime Stoppers,
that leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony crime, and you can remain anonymous. Call
Crime Stoppers at 503-823-4357.
A uthorities in M ontana have
arrested a serial bank robbery sus
pect from Portland.
Joseph Alan Stevens, 23, was
taken into custody last week after a
traffic stop for driving under the
influence o f intoxicants and reck
less driving.
On Aug. 5, a federal grand ju ry
indicted Stevens for six bank rob
beries in the greater Portland m et
ropolitan area. A ccording to the
charges o f assault and intim idation.
served as a peacekeeper in the M iddle East has
The N ational G uard is in the process o f dis
been sentenced to alm ost six years in prison for
charging the tw o m en, said K ay Fristad, a spokes
beating tw o hom eless men.
w om an for the G uard in Salem.
Patterson and his best friend, 21-year-old
A ndrew Lee Patterson, 24, o f Eagle Point w as
fellow G uard m em ber C hadw ick Jam es Ritchie,
sentenced last w eek in M edord.
A lso charged in the case, 26-year-old Aaron
targeted hom eless men and an East Indian motel
A ndrew St. Jam es, o f M edford, w as released on
ow ner in a series o f January attacks that police
July 29 after serving m ore than 100 days in jail. A
labeled hate crim es. Ritchie com m itted suicide
National G uard m em ber, he pleaded guilty to
after the motel ow ner assault.
sting balls during last year’s Bush
protest, said he hopes police are
respectful o f citizens’ rights this
time.
Police C hief Mark K roekersaid
the bureau’s main responsibility
will be to safeguard the president.
The Portland Peaceful Response
Coalition and another coalition o f
protest groups plan to gather about
10 a.m. Thursday at Columbia Park
on North Lom bard and march
southw est to the university on
Willamette Boulevard, and to dem
onstrate until 5 p.m.
A counter-group that supports
the president is also planning a rally
during the visit at the same time on
the comer o f North Willamette and
Portsmouth Boulevards.
Suspected Serial Bank Robber Captured
Guardsman Sentenced in Homeless Attacks
(A P) — An O regon N ational G uardsm an w ho
time in Portland compared with last
August, when his overnight stay at
the downtown H ilton competed for
attention with the disturbances
outside.
He is expected to fly in Thursday
to attend a $2,000-a-person Bush-
Cheney 2004 fund-raising luncheon
at the Chiles Center on the Univer
sity o f Portland campus, according
to invitations. He then is scheduled
to make a stop at a national forest in
Central Oregon to draw attention to
his “ Healthy Forest Initiative.”
Alan Graf, a Portland lawyer who
filed a federal civil rights lawsuit
against the city o f Portland and
Portland and Beaverton police on
behalf o f nine people who were
pepper sprayed or hit with rubber
FBI, he is a suspect in as m any^s
8 other robberies as well.
Following his arrest, officers lo
cated and arrested his companion
Sara Mary Keup, 29, who also faces
a grand jury indictment for her al
leged involvement in one Portland
bank robbery.
Surveillance video shows the
suspect in a series o f bank .
robberies.
A n y o n e w ith in fo rm a tio n
about bank robberies in Oregon
is asked to call the FBI at 503-
224-4181.
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New Trial Scheduled in Police Beating
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(AP) — A judge set a new trial Morse.
“There is no reason to wait. The
dateofO ct. 22 for the former police
officer who was videotaped slam evidence is there. The witnesses
ming a handcuffed teenager onto a are ready,” Los Angeles County
District Attorney Steve Cooley said
car.
Prosecutors requested the re at the time.
trial last month, a day after a mistrial
Morse, 25, is charged with as
was declared when jurors dead sault under color o f authority and
locked 7-5 on charges against could face as much as three years in
former Inglewood officer Jeremy prison if convicted.
He and another officer had been
question ing the teen’s father about
an expired license plate at a gas
station last summer when the inci
dent happened. The defense said
Morse was reacting after the teen
grabbed M orse’s crotch. Prosecu
tors argued Morse didn’t need to
use force because the teen w asn’t
resisting.
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LA Police Need New Ethic, Study Says
(A P)— The Los Angeles Police
Department needs to adopt a new
professional ethic in its officer train
ing programs to improve police
performance in the field, a study
released Thursday suggests.
The nonprofit research group
Rand Corp., which conducted the
study for the city, also recom
mended improving use-of-force,
search-and-seizure and arrest pro-
cedures.
“The LAPD does not success
fully communicate a unified mes
sage to its officers, which creates a
dangerous vacuum that individu
als fill with their own interpreta
tions o f proper behavior,” wrote
study author Russell Glenn.
The city commissioned the study
for $350,000 as part o f a federal con
sent decree after the Rampart cor
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